A letter of Andrea Cesalpino.
@article{Morton1987ALO, title={A letter of Andrea Cesalpino.}, author={A. G. Morton}, journal={Archives of natural history}, year={1987}, volume={14 2}, pages={ 169-73 } }
The publication in 1583 of Andrea Cesalpino's De Plantis Libri XVI was an important event in the revival of botany in Europe after the Middle Ages. Published in Florence as a quarto volume of some 650 pages, this famous work (hereinafter referred to as De Plantis) had a profound influence on the future course of botanical science and especially on the development of plant classification. Cesalpino1 was Professor of Medicine and Botany at the University of Pisa, and Director of the Pisa… CONTINUE READING
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